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  • Troubles with a bush

    Recently there's been some discussion of the nature of dancong online at various places, and one of the topics of discussion was the proper nomenclature of dancong itself. I was not too convinced by what was being said,…

  • Will's sample D

    Back on the sample train -- this time another sample (it does seem like they're endless, aren't they?) from Will. Sample D. I opened it and saw dancong leaves So it must be dancong! Light fired, from what I can tel…

  • Sample C

    More samples from Will. Sample C, it says. Looks like dancong, smells like dancong, it's probably a dancong, so I used my dancong pot. Trying a new set up here, without using a tray and instead have a bowl to catc…

  • Fenghuang Shuixian

    I think there's a law for tea bloggers -- samples will always come in faster than you can finish them. I have been away for a long time, and so have lots of these unfinished samples that I ought to go through. Today's …

  • Tea gathering

    Today I had two tea guests over, and together we drank four different teas. As is generally the case at these meetings, everybody has way more tea than we can possibly drink in one session, and we really only got to dri…

  • Best Tea House dancong revisited

    I haven't had this tea in almost a year. Last time I had it was probably sometime in May 2006 or so. This is actually the last bit of the tea I have left. I probably should've bought some in Hong Kong, but then, I…

  • Impulse buy...

    I drank my very expensive dancong today that I really bought as a mistake when I first got to Beijing. It was an impulse buy, and today, drinking it, I am reminded why it was such a bad idea. The tea, while ok, was som…

  • Two Dancongs from Beijing

    I thought about continuing the Yiwu parade with two 2006 spring Yiwus, but then..... my senses got the better of me. I will probably die of overdose if I tried that today. So instead, I did two dancongs. These are bot…

  • Two dancongs

    Too much puerh yesterday, so I went back to my trusty oolongs. I brewed up the dancong I bought while BBB was here. Then, I thought, what the heck..... I will try both of mine to see how they fare against each other. …

  • Tasting money

    I tried the overpriced dancong I got yesterday. It's not bad. I used slightly less leaves than I should, but since I didn't want to overbrew it, I played it safe. It seems like I can stick a little more in. The tea i…

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